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Interestingly Hutt City is not actually the formal or offical name of this locality. |
Interestingly Hutt City is not actually the formal or offical name of this locality. |
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Interestingly Hutt City is not actually the formal or offical name of this locality.
Offically named Lower Hutt by the New Zealand Geographic Board (http://www.linz.govt.nz/rcs/linz/pub/web/root/core/Placenames/SearchPlaceNames/searchplacenames/index.jsp?p=53465 ) the Lower Hutt City Council changed its legal name as part of a branding exercise to Hutt City Council (see the Lower Hutt City (Name of City Council) Act 1991) and started using the term Hutt City in place of Lower Hutt to describe the area. Lower Hutt remains the offical name of the area.
Nobody actually calls it Hutt City, except the Council and a few businesses in the area. It's still Lower Hutt.
External links
New Zealand Geographic Board listing for Lower Hutt
- So nobody would object if the article was moved to Lower Hutt? ( 12:35, 2 Jan 2004 (UTC)
- Look, I wouldn't object, I very much would like it. There's quite a fine line between common usage and real life versus legal names. I suspect we'll have people changing it back and forth if it's done, but I'd be willing to take the risk. I used to live in Upper Hutt, and it's damned confusing, this whole business... Wanna do it (? --Jonathan Ah Kit 22:24, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
- OK, I've moved it. ( 23:09, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
I actually object to anybody calling the city "Hutt City". This relates to the local authority only. The correct, legal and geographic name is as it has always been, Lower Hutt. In full it is the City of Lower Hutt. Anybody who officially promotes the city as Hutt City is in breach of the Geographic Board Act of 1946 - the Hutt City Council and the Hutt News are two guilty parties. Why won't the Lower Hutt Police action complaints against the HCC? Are they under pressure from business interests who have invested strongly in promoting Lower Hutt as "Hutt City" and stand to lose millions of dollars if they are forced to change the name to the legally correct Lower Hutt. —Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures122.57.131.6 05:37, 24 September 2007 (UTC)] comment added by Peter of Taita. 122.57.134.89 (talk) 05:27, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
Petone and Wainuiomata
I reverted to the simple links for those because they already have articles (in need of attention). The names are unique in the world, so don't need to have "New Zealand" as part of the page name. Robin Patterson 20:21, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Population
Eight or ninth largest? The article contradicts itself! :) 138.37.199.199 08:39, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
CBD photo
Anyone have a good idea for a photo of some place in the CBD? I was thinking of either the council buildings shot from near the Dowse, or looking towards the council buildings and roundabout from the other side of Ewen Bridge. — Soupisgoodfood 23:00, 20 May 2006 (UTC)